JAWSAT
Sign in to saveThe Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite (JAWSAT) is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FalconSAT-1, OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat. JAWSAT also carried NASA's Plasma Experiment Satellite Test (PEST).
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- Instance of
- artificial satellite
- Image
- JAWSAT (OSCAR 39).jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- JAWSAT
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2000-01-27
- space launch vehicle
- Minotaur I
- start point
- Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 8
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The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite (JAWSAT) is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FalconSAT-1, OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat. JAWSAT also carried NASA's Plasma Experiment Satellite Test (PEST).
==See also== Weber-OSCAR 18 2000 in spaceflight
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